equality
/ɪˈkwɒlɪti
/ /iːˈkwɒlɪti/noun
1 [mass noun] The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities: an organization aiming to promote racial equality...
- We also know that the labour movement has to work very hard to ensure that same equality of access and opportunity in the union.
- Moreover, not everything is done to ensure equality of opportunity.
- All the evidence shows, that if you want to promote social mobility and equality of opportunity, you have to start early.
Synonyms
fairness, justness, equitability, impartiality, even-handedness, egalitarianism, equal rights, equal opportunities, non-discrimination;
justice, freedom, emancipation
rare coequality
2 Mathematics A symbolic expression of the fact that two quantities are equal; an equation.Relationships between other values from different quantity spaces can be defined using equalities and correspondences....
- The formal algebraic manipulation of series investigated by Lagrange and Laplace in the 1770s was put in the form of operator equalities by Arbogast in 1800 in Calcul des dérivations.
- In a series of papers published over the following years Edmonds examined a whole variety of different conditions on the functions f and g which give the required equalities.
Origin
Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin aequalitas, from aequalis (see equal).